Today’s one for the history books: Mastodon is becoming an independent non-profit, and Bluesky is supporting #FreeOurFeeds taking their AT Protocol in the same direction.
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Today’s one for the history books: Mastodon is becoming an independent non-profit, and Bluesky is supporting #FreeOurFeeds taking their AT Protocol in the same direction.
Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
Free Our Feeds (freeourfeeds.com)
Mastodon (@[email protected])
Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control. #MastodonNonProfit https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
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replied to Eli Pariser last edited by
@elipariser
Why did #FreeOurFeeds pick #AtProtocol rather than #ActivityPub?I won't be surprised if the answer is long, not short. I'd love to read it either way. FOF should put the Q in its FAQ and write out the full answer for those of us who share its goals but think ActivityPub fulfills them at least as well as AtProtocol.
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replied to petersuber last edited by
@petersuber @elipariser I was wondering the same!
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replied to Daniel Hernández last edited by
@petersuber @elipariser Why #FreeOurFeeds uses the Diaspora logo? (which uses another protocol)
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replied to Daniel Hernández last edited by
@daniel @petersuber @elipariser The FAQ has been updated. We are definitely also interested in Mastodon and ActivityPub. The Free Our Feeds project plans to work on interoperability and collaboration across protocols where it makes sense.
As far as we know, the asterisks is a coincidence, it has nothing to do with Diaspora.
More here: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/13/free-our-feeds-and-algorithmic-pluralism/
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replied to Eli Pariser last edited by [email protected]
It is indeed. We stand at the crossroads of two very different ways forward for media and social media in particular, one corporate and controlled by tech VC money and the other public and free.
These are incompatible, and your initiative will funnel money for truly open public systems to a corporate platform and blur the line between public and private.
Please reconsider what you are doing here.
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